Undergarment.



F. N. WORKMAN.

UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APR.15, 1914.

m Mn w FRANCES N. WORKMAN, 013 LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA.

UN DERGABMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

Application filed April 15, 1914. Serial No. 831,997.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES N. WORK- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ladys undergarment and particularly pertains to an undergarment combining a vest portion of woven fabric and a body portion of a knitted fabric.

It is the object of this invention to overcome the objectionable features of undervests, union suits and the like formed wholly of knittedmaterial, which objections reside in the fact that the knitted shoulder straps have a tendency to slip down on the arm, thus causing discomfort to the wearer, and also exposing the knitted fabric where sleeveless or thin sleeve waists are worn.

It is a further object to obviate the disagreeable features met in the use of the ordinary woven chemise, which is often substituted for the knitted garment to over-- come the above mentioned objectionable features of the latter; the woven chemise, however, being objectionable in that it tends to gather in bunches beneath the corset by reason of its not conforming close to the body.

A further object is to provide an undergarment having an elastic knitted lower portion and a non-elastic woven upper vest portion, which will obviate the use of drawstrings and the like at the neck, and by which the use of a woven fabric will present a neat and dainty appearance when worn with thin waists or dresses.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which: Figure 1 is a view illustrating the garment as applied. Fig. 2 is a detail illustrating a modified form of same. showing the manner in which the nonelastic woven fabric is attached to the elastic knitted fabric; Fig. 4 showing the knitted fabric as expanded as when the woven fabtie is stitched thereto, and Fig. 3 showing the knitted fabric as contracted and forming a fullness in the woven fabric.

Figs. 3 and 4 are details' More specifically, 5 indicates the knitted lower portion of the under-garment, which may comprise the bodv and leg portions of a union suit or the body portion of an un dershirt; the upper edge 6 of this portion of the undergarment terminating at a point above the waist line or immediately below the breasts; this portion of the garment being formed of elastic knitted fabric conforms readily to the body so as not to gather and form bunches beneath the corset. Stitched to the upper edge 6 of the knitted portion 5 of the garment is a vest 7 formed of a non elastic woven fabric, such as nainsook, cambric, muslin or the like, which vest is preferably continuous around the bust and back, or may be opened down the front, as shown in Fig. 2, and provided with buttons 8 and button'holes 9.

The upper portion of the vest 6 is formed with shoulder straps arm hole and neck portions of the garment, the edges of which may be suitably trimmed.

In connecting the non-elastic vest portion 7 to theyelastic body portion 5, the edge (3 of the latter is expanded, as shown in Fig. 4, so that when the knitted fabric contracts to its normal shape a fullness 11 will be formed in the woven fabric at its point of intersection with the knitted fabric.

The important features of this invention resides in the fact that the elastic knitted fabric will conform closely to the body around the waist and beneath the breasts,

where the the elastic knitted fabric acting, two fabrics are joined together, in a mam ner like that of a draw-string and the nonelastic woven vest portion of the garment' will supply the desired fullness over the breasts and will readily retain its position on the wearer by reason of its non-elasticity.

What I claim is:

10 which complete the 1. A ladys nndergarment, comprising a body portion formed of an elastic knitted fabric, and a vest portion formed of a nonclastic woven fabric afiixed to the upper edge of the elastic fabric.

2. A ladys undergarment, comprising a body portion formed of an elastic knitted fabric, a vest portion formed of a nonelastic woven fabric aifixed to the upper edge of the elastic fabric, the goint of me, have hereunto subscribed my nazne this 30th ture between the knitted fa ric an the day of March, 1914.

woven fabric bein arranged to extend im- T I mediately below t e breasts 0f the wearer, FRANLES WORKMAN' {5 the woven fabric havin a fullness at its Witnesses:

juncture with the knitte fabric. MAReUEm'rE Buns, In witness that I claim the foregoing I MARIE BATI'EY. 

